31 Ene 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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This infographic from Study 110 explores the role of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) in driving sustainable development in the Caribbean. While STI is recognized as crucial for progress, the study finds that many Caribbean nations have yet to prioritize it, and existing policies remain underdeveloped.
The current driver of change in the region is renewable energy, influenced by factors such as reliance on expensive imported fossil fuels, falling costs of renewable energy technologies, and international commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
To foster STI advancement, the s…
9 Mayo 2017, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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Many countries are in the early stages of conceptualizing
a strategy for SDG implementation. Therefore, the
importance of national mainstreaming of the SDGs is
critical to have national ownership of the 2030 Agenda.
As Governments undertake to mainstream the SDGs in
their national development plans, it is important to ensure
that national, subnational and subregional indicators,
as well as data collection and reporting arrangements
are designed and implemented in a way that will enable
globally comparable and standardized statistics to be
compiled by the National Statistical Systems (NSS) of
C…
10 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:24
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Over the next twenty years, the Caribbean* will see a rapid and dramatic ageing of its population. With such a rapid increase in the number of older persons on the horizon, there is an urgent need for governments to strengthen social protection against a wide range of risks that older people face.
* -Here the Caribbean refers to Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica; Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Sant Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten,…
30 Nov 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:24
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La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) participa en la 28ª Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP28), hito crucial en la lucha contra la crisis climática y ecológica, que se lleva a cabo en la Ciudad de Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, del 30 de noviembre al 12 de diciembre. La delegación de la CEPAL está encabezada por José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo regional, quien participará en diversas sesiones del foro global. Puedes conocer más sobre la participación de CEPAL en la COP…
La Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, uno de los órganos subsidiarios de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), es el principal foro intergubernamental de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de las mujeres y la igualdad de género en la región. Es organizada por la CEPAL, como Secretaría de la Conferencia, y, desde 2020, en coordinación con la Entidad de las Naciones Unidas para la Igualdad de Género y el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres (ONU-Mujeres). Se convoca regularmente, con una frecuencia no superior a tres años, para analizar la si…
24 Feb 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:19
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La Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, uno de los órganos subsidiarios de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), es el principal foro intergubernamental de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de las mujeres y la igualdad de género en la región. Es organizada por la CEPAL, como Secretaría de la Conferencia, y, desde 2020, en coordinación con la Entidad de las Naciones Unidas para la Igualdad de Género y el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres (ONU-Mujeres). Se convoca regularmente, con una frecuencia no superior a tres años, para analizar la si…
The Caribbean region is vulnerable to many types of weather related disaster as well as earthquakes. Disaster in the region have inceased over time. They are recurrent and happen unexpectedly. Damage and Loss Assessment is the basis for Post Disaster Needs Assessment.…
7 Mar 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:45
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The unpaid care work performed primarily by women, underpins all societies, contributing to well-being, social development and economic growth. Care work involves a variety of domestic tasks, such as the preparation of food, cleaning, washing and ironing of clothes, the collection of water and fuel for cooking, as well as, the care of mostly dependant family members, including children, older persons and persons with disabilities.
The time-use survey is the only available tool for measuring unpaid care work and is also a more cost effective method of collecting timely and accurate data on the…
31 Mar 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:38
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This infographic provides an overview of the Caribbean's progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on eight small island developing states (SIDS), including Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. It highlights the steps being taken to enhance planning systems for sustainable development through integrated, evidence-based decision-making and coordinated national strategies.
Key recommendations for policymakers include strengthening institutional capacity, promoting vertical and horizontal integration, enhancing research and innovation, and…
3 Oct 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:45
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Understanding demographic change in Central America, Mexico and the Hispanic Caribbean, with emphasis on aging, is fundamental for social protection systems. The importance of addressing social protection gaps lies in their manifestation in terms of insufficient coverage, inadequate benefits or lack of accessibility, which prevents progress towards universal protection for all.…
15 Mar 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:45
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is a pioneer in disaster assessment in the region and developed a methodology called DaLA to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters. Find out in this infographic what it is, how it works and what it is for countries.…
The technical cooperation project New narratives for rural transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean is implemented by the Subregional Headquarters of the Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico, with financial support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The IFAD-ECLAC project analyzes the
new rurality and studies structural gaps to reduce rural poverty and inequality and to promote structural transformation in the region's middle-income countries.
This infographic is based on the book Inequalit…
9 Mayo 2017, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:45
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Most small island developing States (SIDS) are net
energy importers and utilize mainly fossil energy
sources to drive their economies and meet social
needs. Fossil energy is used primarily for power
generation and domestic transportation. In light of
the global challenges that arise from climate change,
many countries have initiated strategies and projects
for deploying renewable energy technologies, as
well as enhancing energy efficiency (EE). In 2016,
the International Monitory Fund (IMF) estimated that
transportation accounted for 36 per cent of the total
primary energy consumed in the Cari…
The proposal for development and integration in Central America put forward by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the basis of its considerable prior experience, is set out and updated in these infographics. The proposal emphasizes the need for a progressive structural change driven across various fronts: the social sector, energy, climate change challenges, infrastructure, fiscal coordination, trade, productive integration and innovation. It focuses on the importance of an environmental big push for equality and sustainability, supported by coordinated publ…
1 Feb 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:29
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The infographic on Trinidad's Traffic Study outlines key challenges and recommendations for addressing traffic congestion in Trinidad. It offers several short- to medium-term solutions aimed at enhancing public transportation, such as making it more attractive and reliable, improving paratransit services for first and last mile transportation, and bolstering public safety for both commuters and service providers. Telecommuting is also suggested as a way to reduce the need for physical commuting.
For a long-term solution, the study emphasizes the importance of estab…
29 Ago 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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Five female presidents govern today in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and the number of women legislators, judges and mayors has increased in recent years. But these leaders represent no more than 26% of the total, on average, according to data from ECLAC’s Gender Equality Observatory. The Commission provides here the latest data on women’s participation in different spheres of political power.…
In Latin America and the Caribbean, rural spaces have undergone diverse transformations and mutations over the last decades. In the economic realm, the share of added value and employment
generated by agriculture within rural economic activities is generally lower; this is the result of the growing presence of services, such as agritourism, and processing activities.
This infographic is based on the book New narratives for Rural Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean: a renewed measurement and classification of rural spaces…
3 Oct 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:45
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Aanalysis of socioeconomic inequality that involves studying the distances in access to income between the various social strata based on household income in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, but adjusting income to the National Accounts in each country.…
29 Ene 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:45
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Latin America and the Caribbean is endowed with abundant natural resources, but these are distributed unevenly. ECLAC supports effective and democratic governance of natural resources to achieve the aspirations of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.…